Improved railway-car coupling



w. c. TILTON.

I Car Coupling.

No. 92,902. Pgtehted July 20, 1869.

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W. o. T-ILTON, or sPRINePLAcE, GEORGIA.

Letters Patent No. 92,902, dated July 20, 1 869.

The Schedule referred to in theae Letters Patent: and making part of thewame.

To all whom it nwytco'ncem:

Be it known that I, W. O. TILTON, of Spring Place,

in the county of Murray, and State invented a new and improved Oar-Coupling; and I of Georgia, have do hereby'declare that the following is. afull,.clear and exact description thereof, which will enable othersskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying of this specification.-

drawings, fonnin g part This invention relates to improvements in car-couplings, designed-to they may be self-coupling, necessity for an attendant to stand when they come together, to presen provide an arrangement whereby and thereby prevent the between the cars, t the links to the openings in the-bufi'er-heads, whereby persons are frequently severely injured.

Figure 1, in the drawings, represents a sectional elevation of my improved coupling.

Figure 2 represents a plan of the Similar letters of reference indic parts;

I propose to provide, by casting or coupling-link. ate corresponding otherwise, a large wedge-shaped extension, A, on the link 13, which, when entered and adjusted to the bottom of the sockets of the buffers-will overbalancethe weight of the links, position, whereby socket-s properly, i; being guided by and maintain them in a horizontal. they will always enter the opposite when the cars come together, withou the hand, the said sockets being all sufliciently large p to receive the wedge or block A, which is provided with, a vertical slot for the pins.

I propose to provide a notch, O, in the sides of the holes for the pins, so that the said pins may be lodged therein in an angular position, where they may be placed previously to the moving of the cars together, and from which they=-willbe thrown into a vertical position by the shock of the cars coming togetheig pennitting them to fall to the position for coupling.

When the cars. are conpled, and the links drawn outward to some extent, the wedge-form of the socketand the enlarged portion of the links afiord suificient lateral play for all practical purposes.

Having thus desciibed my invention, 7

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent The coup1ing-link, constructed as described, of "the. slot-ted wedge-shaped extension A, cast upon one end. of the link B, whereby, when adjusted in the sockets of the buffers, the weighted end A will overbalance the link B, and maintain it in a horizontal position, as herein set forth, for the purpose specified.

W. O. TILTON, Witnesses:

F. M. DWIGHT, W. J. McOoLLUM.

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